I like libraries. It makes me feel comfortable and secure to have walls of words, beautiful and wise, all around me. I always feel better when I can see that there is something to hold back the shadow...
Who are you, man? I? I am nothing, replied the other. A leaf caught in a whirlpool. A feather in the wind... Too bad, said Yama, for there are leaves and feathers enough in the world for me to have la...
I know, too, that death is the only god who comes when you call.
Can life be counted upon to limit itself? No. It is the mindless striving of two to become infinity. Can death be counted upon to limit itself? Never. It is the equally mindless effort of zero to enco...
We talked the moon out of heavens before either of us grew tired.
Time passed slowly, like and old man climbing a hill.
P.S. I still dunno if it's art. Go to Hell yourself.
I'm a lost soul. We wail.
I feel obligated to point out, though, that I have always been a sucker for ideas I find aesthetically pleasing. The cosmic sweep of the thing - an interstellar kula chain - affirming the differences...
What an enormous chutzpah you possess, I told him. What makes you better than the rest of us, and more fit to rule? The fact that I was able to occupy the throne, he replied. Try and take it.
The universe did not invent justice. Man did. Unfortunately, man must reside in the universe.
The four points of the compass be logic, knowledge, wisdom and the unknown....To bow before the one is to lose sight of the three.
Raping a planet involves considerable expense. Enormous blasters and slicers and sluicers and refiners are required to reduce a world back almost to a state of primal chaos, and then to extract from i...
Power is like money... You can usually get it if you're competent and it's the only thing you want in life.
Life is a thing--if you'll excuse a quick dab of philosophy before you know what kind of picture I'm painting--that reminds me quite a bit of the beaches around Tokyo Bay
Kroon ei muuda selle kandjat automaatselt pistodakindlaks. [Merlin]Aga pärija tuleb võimule suure hulga paha pagasiga. [Suhuy]
If you ever loved anything in your life, try to remember it. If you ever betrayed anything, pretend for a moment that you have been forgiven. If you ever feared anything, pretend for an instant that t...
You are one of the few successful persons I know.Me? Why?You know precisely what you are doing and you do it well.But I don't really do much of anything.And of course the quantity means nothing to you...
Siddhartha considered the ways of the demon, and in that moment he struck.
Do you work for the government, any government?I pay taxes, which means I work for the government, part of the time. Yes.